Food Insecurity resources

oAndy Fisher, former Executive director of the Community Food Security Coalition. Tune in to find out how corporate America benefits from SNAP, and the real advocacy that’s needed to reduce poverty and corresponding hunger.

oJonathan Lundgren, Ph.D. Research Entomologist, formerly with USDA’s research lab in Brookings, South Dakota. Did you know that most insects are “good” and that they have a critical role to play in our national food security and good nutrition? Lundgren discusses his insightful understanding of insects, and how pesticides pose harm to unintended species, including soil microorganisms, pollinators, aquatic life and humans.

After signing in and accessing the Welcome to Kids EatRight toolkit page, look under the Future of Food Toolkit subtitle to find the toolkit. Mini-grants are also available for members to receive $200 for delivering the 30-minute presentation to two audiences. More information is available at www.eatrightfoundation.org/foundation/kergrants.

·Cook, John T., et al. "Are food insecurity’s health impacts underestimated in the US population? Marginal food security also predicts adverse health outcomes in young US children and mothers." Advances in Nutrition: An International Review Journal 4.1 (2013): 51-61.

FRAC – The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, corporations and labor organizations to address hunger, food insecurity, and their root cause, poverty. As Congress Daily has written, FRAC is “the premier anti-hunger group in Washington.”

Feeding America – The Feeding America network of food banks is leading the fight against hunger in communities nationwide. Together with individuals, charities, businesses and government we can solve hunger.

The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s Food Policy Networks (FPN) project supports the development of effective state and local food policy through networking, capacity building, research, and technical assistance. We work directly with food policy councils, national organizations, and other groups seeking to improve the food system through public policy.